🌱 Nor'easter Approaches + Mandate Fights Loom | NYC Daily

Happy Monday. Today's going to be warmer, but batten down the hatches as a nor'easter is on its way. Forecasters expect the worst of it to hit early Tuesday with a lot of rain.

Here are the top stories today in New York City:

1. A nor'easter is taking aim at NYC and a flash flood warning is going into effect (Patch)
2. A COVID mandate that included school workers and health care professionals was successful, but a fight is coming over the next one (Patch)
3. New Yorkers support closing streets around Rockefeller Center to traffic over the holidays, according to a Patch survey (Patch)
4. The Daily News has issued a plan that would help the next mayor deal with the homelessness issue (New York Daily News)
5. A knife fight spilled into a Midtown pizzeria (CBS New York)
6. NYC students struggle with ongoing school bus woes (New York Daily News)
7. De Blasio’s bid to rid NYC of Trump's name could cost taxpayers over $30M (New York Post)

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About me: Adam Nichols is in charge of New York City coverage at Patch and currently oversees our 36 (and growing) neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Previously he was Senior Editor at DNAinfo, helping build that website from inception into a leading local news source. Adam has worked at the New York Post, the New York Daily News and daily regional newspapers in the United Kingdom, as well as teaching a hyperlocal news course at Seton Hall University.

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